Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-01-30
HORSE HEAVEN.
Observation of n Memphis Man in Ken
tucky-Horse Talk, Horse Music and the
the Nightmare that Followed.
MeMpkis Arljaachc.

tucky-HofSe IaiiE, Horse Music and the
the Nightmare that Followed.
Msmpkis ArijqachG.
Recently, discussing the antc-bellum
trade in mules and horses, which yielded
such a large revenue to Kentucky from the
South, Colonel W., a courteous ex-Ken-
tuckian now ofthis city, recalled several
anecdotes illustrative of the worship the
great blue grass section around Lexington,
KY, pays the noblest of our domestic
animals.
The people of the Blue Grass region"
said Colonel W., must be decended in a
straight line from the Troians. Troy fell
through the agency of a wooden horse: the
Greeks took advantage of their weakness
in that direction to their complete undoing.
Some time ago a friend OF mine from Mem
phis went with his wife up to Fayette and
Clark county, Kentucky, 10 select n pair
Of carriage horses, and his experience was
amusing. As soon rs they found out they
were horse hunting there WAS little peace
for them until they got out of the country.
They bad never heard 50 much horse talk
in all their lives put together. They don't
believe they ever discuss anything but the
horse. 1t Is horse in the EarlGr, horse in
the kitchen, horse at the table. You have
horse served up TO you for breakfast, horse
for dinner, horse for supper. 4 running
comment of any sort soon takes the shape
of a running horse. Try to get in a few
words on the national bank system and
you soon find yourself on the horseback
system. 1t was quite new to our Mem
phianS, this idolatrous worship, since they
had been born and reared in the land of cot
ton, where that divinity is not so highly
appreciated"
II have understood" put in the repor-
ter, THAT the first word a Blue Grass baby
learns TO pronounce is 'hOsS.'"
ut is a common experience up there"
replied the colonel. MY baby is only
II months DID, says mother No. /, and
can say boss right plain Mine replies
No. =, isn't a year old yet, and just says
boss right straight along all day And
mine No. 3, ~interposes, said boss six
months before he was weaned. He can
say boss any time; he can almost say two
hOsses.' Our Memphians stayed one night
with a cever old Clark County farmer, and
| III MIS- HOSS lilh uIllll 1UO IlOIh, NllCu JuSl
as they were hoping they might get off to
bed and escape the never-ending topic,
an old negro musician was invited into the
parlOr. He had a long, horse face, a great
horse fiddle, on which he was made to play
old hOss kick high, high, hoop-de-dOodle-
doc, till Il o'clock. My friend says he
and his wife were not invited to retire till
near midnight. Even then, after getting
to sleep, he says he dreamed he was Free
land, with Colonel Montgomery on his
back, trying TO make Il mile down Main
street inside of |. 40; he flew the track and
got to kicking; kicked his better halt ont
of bed; landed on the floor upon his all
tOurs, and in making a desperate effort to
switch the flies off, woke Ill a cold sweat.
This.is what they call having a 'nithtmare'
in Kentucky"
IL don't know that he had any more
such nightmares" assumed Colonel W.,
but he told me a dream he had after get
ting home. He dreamed he entered one
of the public schools near Lexington, Ky.
The walls were decorated with paintings
of celebrated horses. The class known rs
the 'hOSS grammar class was called up to
ICCllC 10 Juc tcdCilcl, WIN MI WIN ~ SItsI
horsewhip IN his dexter paw.
Tcacher-Sam, c~onjugate Glencoe.
Sam-Glencoe's hOsS-maSculine gender
-cause he's Il male. First ~coniungatiOn
cause he makes the fastest time. Perfect
tense cause he's 4 perfect hoss. lie was
sired by RudOlph-who was sired by Star
DaviS-whO was sired by Hciz0g-whO
was sired by Boston.
Tcacher-Right. Now give us the
0cher side of thc--the tense-Or whatever
you call it.
Sam-Ycs, sir. He was damm'd by
Adelaide, who was damm'd by Chloe, who
was damm'd by Flora, who was damm'd
observation-disclosures if |
haven't forgot the rest OF it.
No wonder Kentuckians are called the
most hoSS-pitable people on the gobe.